Muluken Tesfaw

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After a decade of unprecedented growth and development, the insistence on positive news remains a significant threat to press freedom in sub-Saharan Africa.
By Mohamed Keita

A newspaper displayed in the Ikoyi district of Lagos on September 30, 2013, tells of a deadly attack on a college in northeast Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram militants. Coverage of the group can be sensitive in Nigeria. (Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye)

New York, May 30, 2012--Ethiopian authorities have detained since
Friday a reporter who sought to interview people evicted from their homes in a
region where the government is building a contentious hydro-electric
dam on the Blue Nile, according
to a news report and the reporter's editor. The Committee to Protect
Journalists said today that the case highlights authorities' disregard for the
rule of law and its systematic efforts to suppress news critical of government
officials.